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Introduction to Week 3

Watch Geert Jan Bex presenting the GDB debugger and Valgrind tool as well as some general debugging techniques

Week 3 learning goals

During this week, you’ll learn about

  • Finding bugs in serial code using a debugger,
  • Advanced debugger features,
  • Best practices for debugging code,
  • Verifying code at runtime for memory leaks and data access issues.
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Defensive Programming and Debugging

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